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Comment author: wedrifid 02 February 2012 12:25:32PM *  0 points [-]

Soul Hunter: A quaint lie, pretty fantasy. The soul ends with death, unless we act to preserve it.

The fantasy doesn't sound quaint - it sounds like a depressing story of inevitable decay and without even the possibility of allowing the creation of new (ensouled) individuals even in the case where those alive remove their vulnerability to death. The Soul Hunter presents a reality where souls evidently become generated each generation in the same way that they were before.